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Bond University has appointed Queensland Government Architect Professor Philip Follent as the founding head of its new Soheil Abedian School of Architecture, which will accept its first cohort of students in January. Follent said the opportunity to shape a refreshing ...

The University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education (MGSE) has appointed Professor John Hattie director of its research institute. Hattie’s work is internationally acclaimed. His influential 2008 book Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement is ...

Professor Carolyn Evans has been appointed dean of Melbourne Law School. She will take up the position in February. Her appointment followed an international and national search. In a media statement the university council said Evans enjoyed a reputation as ...

Flinders University has appointed Shane McGregor to the new position of vice-president (strategic finance and resources). McGregor has spent the past eight years at the University of Adelaide as its Chief Financial Officer. An MBA and qualified accountant, McGregor has ...

One of the The University of the Sunshine Coast’s longest-serving academics, Professor Pam Dyer has announced her retirement. Dyer started as a lecturer at USC when it opened in 1996 and she progressed through the ranks to become Dean of ...

Dr John Shine, director of the Garvan Institute in Sydney, has received the $300,000 Prime Minister’s prize for science for his science – discoveries of key gene sequences that led to cloned medicines – and his research leadership. Other winners ...

Millions of dollars are being spent on India specific education initiatives International competitors are pouncing on the lucrative Indian student market, with delegations from Canada, the US and the UK descending on the subcontinent in the past two weeks. Observers ...

Human Rights Commission told ‘horrific’ stories of landlords asking for sexual favours as part of accommodation cost Allegations that female foreign students are trading sex for rent because of a shortage of safe and affordable accommodation have been brought to ...

Australian education has all but lost its privileged position in the new points test for skilled migration. The new points test for general skilled migration, released last week by immigration minister Chris Bowen, will shift the balance towards older migrants ...